This list is for discussion of implementation of the rssCloud protocol as discussed on http://rsscloud.org/. At least at first the list is moderated, to keep...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 4, 2009 8:02 pm
An experimental web service that returns the OPML subscription list for a Twitter user. http://rsscloud.org/twitterSubscriptionlists.html An essential element...
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Matthew Terenzio
matthewterenzio
Aug 5, 2009 10:13 pm
FYI: The Hour Publishing company has added a cloud element to their regular RSS feeds for their three sites, thehour.com, thestamfordtimes.com and ...
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Matthew Terenzio
matthewterenzio
Aug 5, 2009 10:14 pm
I noticed "rsscloud"; was available as a username on Twitter so I grabbed it. I'm sure I can think of something cool to pipe to it. If the community can think...
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sean_reiser
Aug 6, 2009 5:12 pm
Hey Matt- ... I'm looking in the feeds and not seeing the cloud elements (eg. http://thehour.com/rss). Am I looking in the right place? -- Sean...
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Matthew Terenzio
matthewterenzio
Aug 6, 2009 6:13 pm
I'm looking in the feeds and not seeing the cloud elements (eg. http://thehour.com/rss). Am I looking in the right place? Yes, sorry. I reverted back to the...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 6, 2009 9:43 pm
Three choices, or...? http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/06/anotherBrickInTheCloud.html Dave...
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Jean-Yves Stervinou
jystervinou
Aug 6, 2009 10:14 pm
... or : - The Profile URL is the global id of a microblog (à la openId) : ex : http://lifeliner.org/davewiner ex : http://twitter.com/davewiner (you get the...
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Sean Reiser
sean_reiser
Aug 6, 2009 10:53 pm
Folks: Been thinking about how polling should work in RSSCloud. I know the concept, if you haven't heard from a server in an hour pull the RSS file, if there...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 6, 2009 11:00 pm
Sean, I think this time around we should use ttl and skipHours and skipDays, and we should test apps carefully and rate them on whether they respect these...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 6, 2009 11:01 pm
Read this great piece about Van Halen and the reason why they put the bit about brown M&M's in their contract. http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp...
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Matthew Terenzio
matthewterenzio
Aug 7, 2009 12:37 am
Makes sense to me. The way mine works is the aggregator caches the feed for like a year. When notified of an update another process just updates the cache, so...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 7, 2009 7:22 pm
Since name resolution is inherently centralized, aren't we trading one vulnerable system for another? Couldn't a hacker take down the name server just as...
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Matt Terenzio
matthewterenzio
Aug 7, 2009 11:22 pm
... That's a great story. When my band plays we demand a bowl of acid tabs, no brown dots. We have other demands too, but decorum prohibits me, plus none of...
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jeremy.felt
Aug 11, 2009 12:17 pm
Hi all, I just started diving in tonight, so I'm still absorbing and catching up. Chose to go the http-post method first because I thought it'd be easy with...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 12:19 pm
Hi Jeremy! That looks like a problem on my end. I'll investigate when I get into work in a couple of hours....
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 4:09 pm
I just tried it and did not hit this problem. Here's the code I used. local (apiurl = "http://rpc.rsscloud.org:5337/rsscloud/pleaseNotify", params); new...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 4:23 pm
I just spent a little time staring at the server-side code and I take back what I said about it likely being an error on my end. That's the error message you'd...
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jeremy.felt
Aug 11, 2009 4:46 pm
Hey Dave, Thanks for looking at this. I'm using cURL in PHP to issue the POST. Variables being passed in the current setup: post_url =...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 4:51 pm
Try it again, I bet you get a different error message (since I just changed how it handles the error I mentioned in the previous post). I don't know what cURL...
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jeremy.felt
Aug 11, 2009 5:00 pm
The angry beast that is cURL strikes again... I don't get it. I'll have to study more. :) If I pass the POST parameters as an array to cURL, your end sees it...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 5:06 pm
BTW, the fact that you were getting a success response from a GET was a bug -- it wasn't registering a protocol handler. Dave...
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Michael Sullivan
sulleleven
Aug 11, 2009 5:06 pm
can you post your curl code here? maybe set CURLOPT_HEADER to false. sull...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 5:10 pm
Jeremy, I just changed the cloud server so that it will accept the parameters on the URL, as if it were a GET in addition to in the request body. So my guess...
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Dave Winer
dwiner
Aug 11, 2009 5:12 pm
BTW, you can follow my code updates on Twitter. http://twitter.com/dwcodeupdates I plan to turn this into an RSS feed with a <cloud> element shortly. Dave...
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jeremy.felt
Aug 11, 2009 5:22 pm
Yes, the code started working as soon as I started passing the variables as if they were part of the URL. I'll keep looking into cURL to see what's going on...
I use something like this: $post_url = " $path = "/path/to/my/callback"; $url = "http://urltosubscribeto.com"; $postops =...
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Michael Sullivan
sulleleven
Aug 11, 2009 7:20 pm
sure, can stick the param string in a variable and use variable in the curl_setopt. as long as it's a param string being passed to curl, it should work fine....
